November 21st, 2014, 6:14 pm
QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnor"Who have you been interviewing with ?" may be a question, but is also a lie.An agent needs to know if you've been put forward to a specific client, in order not to create clashes that create hassle for you as well as them.The only reason to ask in general who you've seen is to get sales leads and since some reading this are new tothe game let me share that since you are already interviewing, the only shot they have is to send someone else to compete with you.That has two midly obvious effects, first, they may pick that one instead of you and/or they will believe there is greater supply of that skill set and lower their price.The less obvious effects are that the interivew process may take longer and since they will come to believe the market favours them more and so be more relaxed about the possibilty that you give up waiting.Also it is not unknown for recruiters to be honest...If asked "how did you find out about this ?" the agent may say "XX told me" and you will be known as the source of irritating sales calls and seen as a bit naive which is not good.Thanks for your answer, Dominic. That really makes sense. Actually, one of my friends had some related experience. Being a newbie as well, he accidentally revealed the position (for which he had been a very competent applicant and finished the final round already) and the name of the hiring manager to a Selby Jennings recruiter. Days later he heard that some other applicant with very good working experience suddenly showed up for the interview. He could not tell for sure whether this recruiter was behind this, but I guess there's extremely high probability as this was a not publicly announced position. Of course, the recruiter never actually contacted my friend for the "one or two good positions on hand" he claimed (as always huh). I guess his initial intention was not to introduce to any good positions anyways, he just wanted to know where else he could place his best "stocks", as neuroguy pointed out.So after seeing all the valuable responses you guys gave me, I really want to warn my friends and anyone who is viewing this thread, beware of the fake postings and the recruiters who try to pry into your "interview experience". I guess telling them the name of the companies you interviewed with is fine at most, but never reveal the name of the hiring managers, not even the positions you interviewed for if possible.By the way, me and some of my friends actually have the names and contact info of some of these SJ recruiters. I really don't want to reveal them here, because no matter how we hate these guys, I understand that this is a cruel world and this is how they make a living, and we have to learn how to live with all these cruelty too. But wtf...
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CarbonNanohoop on November 20th, 2014, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.